If you have to completely tear Samba down to get it built again you might as well give NFS a shot. There’s actually a GUI configurator for it produced by Red Hat that’s in the AUR. Just saying with all the headaches with Samba lately, you don’t hear anybody complaining about nfs.

It didn’t seem to do anything, because Dolphin still is unable to write shares and my home was already with those permissions, just because I need to access it from test user sometimes (so we share groups so I could read/write).

To be on safer side, I edited conf in nano and rebooted whole system. Still, Dolphin samba sharing isn’t happening. I so wanted to mark that “solved” button… I know that if I put sambashares manually they would show up, but that’s not the point. Dolphin sambasharing worked well before update.

Also, I have a question: I previously deleted the Homes and Print part, as I thought this is just to provide some blueprints if I wanted to have shares within conf. I know it works because in my very old samba setting I added shares to conf manually. So are such lines not contradictory to what is in /var/lib/usershare ?

I start to wonder, is there maybe a regression in Dolphin that screws this with samba? We would need it for sure to file a bug. Unfortunately, the update was not just Plasma and KDE programs but also a big samba update so it’s hard to figure out what went wrong and where.

Also, is Dolphin GUI sambasharing working for you guys after this update? I’m not talking about existing shares but creating new ones.

EDIT: I did put one of the old shares and it showed up on network and I still needed root credentials. So we are dealing here with 2 problems: